Eyeglass-holder.



No. 823,133. PATENTED JUNE 12, 1906. E. B. MEYROWITZ.

EYEGLASS HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED DEG. 23,1904.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL B. MEYROWITZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE MEYROWITZMANUFACTURING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

EYEGLASS-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 1906.

Application filed December 23, 1904. Serial No. 238,039.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL B. MEYRowrrZ, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of New York, in the borough of Manhattan and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inEyeglass-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention relates to eyeglass-holders, the object of the same beingto provide a simple and cheaply-constructed device of this characterinto which the eyeglasses may be readily inserted and from which theymay be removed, but from which they cannot be accidentally detached.

A further object of the invention is to provide means whereby the holderwill be held in close contact with the surface of the garment to whichit is attached and whereby the eyeglasses when supported thereby willalso lie in close contact with the garment.

Other objects of the invention will hereinafter appear.

The invention consists of an eyeglass-holder provided with means forattaching it to a garment and having a loop at its lower end for thereception of an eyeglass-spring, the said loop having a restricted exit.

It also consists in certain features and details of construction whichwill be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is anelevation of an eyeglass-holder embodying my-invention, showing a pairof eyeglasses supported thereby. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the holder.Fig. 3 is an ed e view of the same with the cloth through which thesecuring pin passes shown in section, and Fig. 4 is a section on theline 4 4 of Fig. 2.

Like reference-numerals indicate like parts in the different views.

The body 1 of the holder may be made in any ornamental shape, the samebeing shown herein as constructed from a strip of metal having anopening 2 in its upper end, the said strip extending outwardly anddownwardly and then downwardly and inwardly upon diagonal lines. Thewhole lower end of the body 1 is bent rearwardly and then forwardly andupwardly to form a loop 3 for the reception of the eyeglass-spring. Fromthe loop 3 a spring portion or arm 4 extends upwardly iar bend which isgiven to the metal in the 1 production of said loop. The entrance tosaid loop is still further restricted by a forwardly-projecting lug 6 onthe body 1, which lug also serves as a keeper for the pin 7, which isprovided for the purpose of attaching the holder to the garment. Thispin has been shown as pivoted at the upper end on the rear side of thebody 1, so that its point or free end may be inserted behind the keeper6. When in place, the said pin in no way obstructs the passage into theloop 3, and said pin may be readily connected to or disconnected fromits keeper even while the eyeglass is supported within said loop. 7 iscurved inwardly toward the body 1 of the holder adjacent to its point,so that it will act to draw inwardly the cloth through which it passesand hold the body of the holder in close contact with the surface of thegarment.

In connection with my improved holder I have shown an ordinary andwell-known form of eyeglasses, the same to be applied to the holder bypassing the bow-spring 8 thereof down into the loop 3. As is well known,the bow-springs of most modern eyeglasses are set at an angle to theplane of the lenses. With this kind of a spring it is merely necessaryin order to introduce the same into the holder to hold the glasses at aslight angle, so that the plane of the central portion of the bow-springwill be substantially vertical. The spring may then be passed downfreely into the space between the spring-arm 4 and the body 1 and thencedown into the loop 3. During this passage absolutely no obstruction ismet with, as the bow-spring 8 is free to pass edgewise down through thecontracted throat of the loop 3. When released, however, the eyeglasseswill swing by gravity until the lenses lie in substantially closerelation to the garment and in a substantially vertical position. Whenin this position, upward or return movement of the bow-spring 8 The pinthrough the passage which it had previously traversed into the loop 2 isprevented by the engagement of said bow-spring with the lug orprojection 6 or the wall of the contracted portion of the passageleading from said loop. To remove the eyeglasses it is merely necessaryto swing the same forwardly into a natural position and then slip thespring edgewise upwardly out of the loop 3 and through the.

space between the spring-arm 4 and the body 1"of the holder. 1t willthus be seen that while the eyeglasses may be readily applied to andremoved from the holder there is no danger whatever of the same becomingaccidentally displaced when once in position. It will also be observedthat the holder itself is held in close contact with the garment towhich it is applied and that the glasses when in place also lie close tothe body of the wearer.

Having described my invention, I claim 1. An eyeglass-holder comprising,a body portion extending downwardly and outwardly and then downwardlyand inwardly, an arm shaped the reverse of the body portion, rigid withand bent over said body portion, the bend constituting a loop forreceiving the spring of a pair of eyeglasses, a pin carried by said bodyportion, and a keeper for said pin within said loop and constituting anabutment restricting the exit thereof for retaining said spring inplace, said loop also constituting a housing for the point of said pin.

2. An eyeglass holder embodying two limbs bent together, av pin carriedby the end of one limb and having a curved point defiected toward thesurface of the fabric to be engaged, and a keeper for said pin in saidbend and forming an abutment therein, and arranged to hold the pin-pointagainst the side of said limb.

3. An eyeglass holder embodying two limbs bent together, the bendconstituting a loop with a restricted open side the width of which openpart is less than the diameter of the loop whereby said loop has acurved side, a pin carried by the free end of one of the limbs formedstraight throughout the greater portion of its length and having acurved point corresponding with and for lying upon and within saidcurved side of said loop and deflected toward the surface of the fabricto be engaged, and a keeper in said loop adjacent to said curved side,andengaging the deflected point of said pin whereby such point is heldclosely against one side of said loop.

In witness whereof I subscribe my signa ture in the presence of twowitnesses.

EMIL B. MEYROWITZ.

Witnesses:

CARL JUSSEN, SAML. B. McNErLL.

